Pictures

Check out the latest pictures I had taken of our kids. They are on the right under the temple.

So is it a bad thing to have picked who you are going to marry at the age of 3? We went and spent some time with my friend Kimberli and her family and while we were there, Brighton (my 3 year old) and Bella (her 3 year old) said they were going to get married in the temple when they are older. Guess we'll see what happens. It didn't help to have older siblings eggin it on.

Monday's...

As most of you know my dad passed away on a Monday morning. What is it about this day? My mom's father passed away this morning. Another Monday.

We (the kids and I) went to Brigham City this weekend and stopped over to see my mom's parents. I don't get to see them very often and the mere fact that I made the decision to go down THIS particular weekend... my grandpa has been very sick for a long time but has continued to hang in there. I'm not sure he even knew I was there, but I went and just sat in his room for about an hour. Tender Mercies!

This picture is my grandpas legacy. We are only missing 2 babies and a husband who weren't in exhistance when this picture was taken. This is a very special picture. My grandma had said for several years that if my grandpa lived to be 80 we would have a big party and family picture. Our family is spread all over, but this is all of us!! I absolutely love this picture. We are all infront of my grandparents house with my favorite tree in the picture. My grandpa turned 81 this last Sunday.

Mock me if you must!

For those of you who have heard me say that I am not a big fan of reading... I found a book. Sadly, it's a kids book, but were taking baby steps. It's probably an very easy read for you Twilighter's out there, but this is one that my kids and I are reading together before nap time. It's called The Mysterious Benedict Society. It's very intriguing and mysterious!!

Birthday and Father's day in the same month.

Today is Jim's 36th birthday. I found a couple of pictures from his MUCH younger years. He's had some pretty great accomplishments thru the years, but his greatest accomplishment are his four amazing kids, who love him to the moon and back "and then some". Thanks Jim for being a great dad and husband and my best friend.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!

"The Bird"

I remembered the funniest thing that happened a couple of Sundays ago. I went to pick Brighton up from his primary class and his teacher was really excited to have him show me what he learned in class. Brighton wasn't sure what he was talking about and I could see his teacher behind him putting up the "I love you" sign with his hand. Well, Brighton stuck up his middle finger and flipped me off instead. I said "oh, so that's what your teaching him in primary... nice!" They were embarrased and we laughed really hard. It was so funny. He just couldn't get his fingers in the right place at the right time.

ONE WORD TAG

This was harder than I thought. Some of these questions require more than one word. Good luck

1. Where is your cell phone?. . . . . desk
2. Your significant other? . . . . . . ..Jim
3. Your hair? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .boring
4. Your mother? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..amazing
5. Your father? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . missionary
6. Your favorite thing? . . . . . . . . . .
7. Your dream last night? . . . . . . . LOST
8. Your favorite drink? . . . . . . . . . .Pepsi
9. Your dream/goal? . . . . . . . . . . . .Basement
10. The room you're in? . . . . . . . . . Kitchen
11. Your hobby? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .scrapbooking
12. Your fear? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . survival
13. Be in six years? . . . . . . . . . . . . . debtfree
14. Where were you last night? . . . work
15. What you're not? . . . . . . . . . . . .ambitious
16. Muffins? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .chocolate chip
17. One of your wish list items? . . . finished scrap room
18. Where you grew up? . . . . . . . . . Cucamonga
19. The last thing you did? . . . . . . . breakfast
20. What are you wearing? . . . . . . .p.j.'s
21. Your tv? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .sweet
22. Your pets? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .non-exhistant
23. Your computer? . . . . . . . . . . . . . love
24. Your life? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .work in progress
25. Your mood? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ever-changing
26. Missing someone? . . . . . . . . . . . my dad
27. Your car? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .gas hog
28. Something your not wearing? . .bra :-)
29. Favorite store? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kohls
30. Your summer? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . fun
31. Like someone? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .mom
32. Your favorite color? . . . . . . . . . . red
33. Last time you lauged?. . . . . . . . . yesterday
34. Last time you cried? . . . . . . . . . .yesterday
Everyone who reads this can consider themselve tagged! Let's see some answers.

5 things-

5 things on my list of things to do today:
1. Get up. (this is a tricky one)
2. Go for a walk.
3. Finish the laundry I started 3 days ago
4. Clean some part of my house
5. Go to work at 8pm
5 snacks I enjoy:
1. Chocolate shakes
2. Hot chocolate with english toffee and whipcream from the coffee shack
3. Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies
4. Peach cobbler
5. yellow cake with chocolate frosting
5 things I would do if I suddenly became a billionaire:
1. Finish our basement
2. Finish our yard
3. Pay off my house and other debt
4. Go back to Fussen, Germany and take the kids
5. Let Jim stay home and work on his screen play
5 places I've lived: (this is only 5 of 18. Not in any order)
1. Tooele, Utah
2. Spokane, Washington
3. Omaha, Nebraska
4. Round Mountain, Nevada
5. Logan, Utah
5 jobs I've held:
1. Sir Speedy Printing
2. Old Navy
3. Flying J Corporate
4. KOHLS
5. KOHLS
5 things people don't know about me:
I'm not sure there is anthing that people don't know about me. I'm pretty much an open book.
5 people tagged:
Sarah, Emily, Chelene (if she ever sees this), Dayna, Bobbi

first day of summer vacation

I had all these great ambitions for today. Get up, go for a walk, get ready for the day and then take the kids out and play. Well, I got up. It's almost 10 am and my ambition is gone. Not cool. It's going to be a long summer if I don't get it together.

I need your opinion

I got really bored and didn't have anything fun to post, so I changed my background. I'm not sure if I like it. Let me know what you think. Should keep it or change it.

Another soggy day

I don't have a whole lot of anything exciting to add. Today was again wet and yucky. My brother and sister in law ended up coming to stay for Sunday night and visiting for a while. It was really fun to see them. We wanted to go to the cemetary and have a picnic with my dad, but it was way too wet to throw down a blanket and pull out the K.F.C. So we'll wait and maybe try for Father's Day. One of my dad's favorite things to do was go and get some picnic food (a.k.a. Kentucky Fried Chicken), spread out a blanket on the family room floor and have a family picnic. He wasn't much of an outdoors type, but it is and always will be a great memory.

Let's see... we went and saw Indiana Jones on Friday and I have to say, it was a little disappointing. I liked it, but I guess I had better expectations. Other than work, I haven't done much this weekend.

Is it ever going to be summer?

Ya know... it's almost June and we went from 80 degrees to 43 degrees over night. No snow yet, but at this point I'm not sure I'd be suprised. Everyone is trying to put in their yards, but it's been so windy and rainy. Sad. We on the other hand are stuck down in the basement trying to get that wonderful project done. Don't get me wrong... I've very excited to get it finished, but there isn't a light at the end of that tunnel yet.

Britney got tagged.

A- ATTACHED OR SINGLE: "Uhhh... single?"
B- BEST FRIEND: There were too many to list.
C- CAKE OR PIE: Cake
D- DAY OF CHOICE: Friday's, cuz it's candy day at school.
E- ESSENTIAL ITEMS: "my sisters and brother"
F- FAVORITE COLOR: Red
G- GUMMY BEARS OR GUMMY WORMS: Both
H- HOMETOWN: Idaho Falls, Id
I- INDULGENCE: "Airheads"
J- JANUARY OR JULY: July (that's not surprising living in Idaho)
K- KIDS: none
L- LIFE IS INCOMPLETE WITHOUT: "daddy. Oh, and mommy" (glad I was on the list even if it took a look for her to figure out that I should be on there)
M- MARRIAGE DATE: "July 20th" WHAT!!!??? Your only 5.
N- NUMBER OF SIBLINGS: 2 sister and a brother
O- ORANGES OR APPLES: oranges
P- PHOBIAS OR FEARS: "strangers"
Q- QUOTES: "I love you to the moon and back, then some. Oh rats, why didn't I think of that"
R- REASON TO SMILE: "my family"
S- SEASON: "summer"
T-Tag: Josh Gordon, Kate Larson (not sure how you spell Kaitlyn), Kylie Hadfield
U-UNKNOWN FACT ABOUT ME: She loves pretending to be a dog.
V- VERY FAVORITE STORE: Somehow I knew she would say Walmart. So sad!!
W- WORST HABIT: "Not listening to my mom." She has very selective hearing.
X- X-RAY, ULTRASOUND, OR MAMMOGRAM: She's had to have a couple of x-rays when she was a baby for a syst on her tailbone
Y- YOUR FAVORITE FOOD: speghetti
Z- ZODIAC: NO IDEA what that is.

THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA

GREAT movies! I have really enjoyed picking out his theories and looking for the insight he gives. For example the sisters are talking about why Aslan hasn't been seen by anyone and the older sister says that he has already proven himself to us, maybe he's waiting for us to prove ourselves to him. It made me think about our Savior. He has already proven Himself to us... He's waiting for us to come find Him and prove ourselves. There was a lot of stuff in there just like that. It was great!